Chen Lin, the general judge, sticks to his true intentions and is an honest official.
Although the achievements were not profound, the situation in Fengzhou was barely maintained.
Niu Laosan observed for three days and came to this conclusion.
Therefore, Chen Lin's black gauze hat and life were completely saved.
Before setting off, Fang Zhe secretly asked Niu Laosan to observe Chen Lin.
If Chen Lin is a mediocre person, take away his official title.
If he is a person who feeds the common people, just take his life directly.
Chen Lin didn't know this.
In the past few days, I have seen the strong Jiangzhou sailors and the 600 newly trained Fengzhou Renaissance Army.
His heart was filled with security.
The most important thing is the three thousand stones of grain and grass unloaded from the ship!
With these grains, Fengzhou can sustain itself until the autumn harvest!
At this time, Chen Lin also fell in love with Song Yang in his heart.
But regarding the power to manage Fengzhou.
Chen Lin didn't give up completely.
I don’t even want to give too much to Wang Yongning and Xiao Fugui.
In his opinion, Wang Yongning was just a big shot. He was only a hundred households before, but he became a thousand households only when he climbed up to Song Yang.
Let alone a little rich man, he is just a eunuch. I have never heard of what a guard eunuch is.
In the end, the two men showed their military strength forcefully, and Chen Lincai reluctantly compromised.
He left the population and commercial matters to Xiao Fugui, and completely entrusted industry and defense to Wang Yongning.
At this point, Fengzhou has gradually stabilized.
With the arrival of the Renaissance Army, social order gradually became peaceful.
Officials began to organize teams to protect land and products, and gathering, fishing and hunting were also carried out in an organized manner.
Life started to get better gradually.
"Master Niu, we want to ask you to do something." On this day, Xiao Fugui found Niu Laosan.
"What's the matter? Send a letter back?" Niu Laosan looked at Xiao Fugui and asked.
"No, no, sending letters is a business matter." Xiao Fugui shook his head and said.
"That... is the Crown Prince. He wants our family to help him find someone, but as you can see, the Zhang family is so busy right now that they have no time to find someone for the Crown Prince. So..."
Xiao Fugui said embarrassedly.
Song Chengwang asked him to find Liu Yuhua. This was a private matter.
This matter bothers Niu Lao San, Xiao Fugui is also embarrassed.
But he really doesn't have time. Although he only cares about population and business, he is busy enough with the basic statistics of personnel.
Chen Lin himself had never collected statistics on the population, so he had no way to intervene in this new job, and Xiao Fugui could only do it himself.
Xiao Fugui has been busy with this recently.
There are more than 20,000 people in Fengyang City. If you want to count the people, you have to go door to door. There is really no time to find someone for the prince.
"You are talking about Liu Yuhua, right? The prince gave the order before coming out, and I started asking about it the day before yesterday."
After listening to Xiao Fugui's words, Niu Laosan said suddenly.
"Yes, yes! Have you heard about Liu Tongzhi's daughter Liu Yuhua?"
Xiao Fugui said happily, but he didn't expect that Song Yang would really take it seriously.
"The news came back yesterday that they found a person who met Liu Mansion's Ma Cheng. This morning I sent someone to find that person for questioning." Niu Laosan replied.
"Lord Qianhu, Lin Shui has brought you."
Just as he said this, the navy soldier who was looking for someone came back.
"Come here quickly!" Before Niu Laosan could say anything, Xiao Fugui shouted anxiously.
Immediately I realized that this was the navy camp.
The little rich man scratched his head in embarrassment and chuckled.
Niu Laosan didn't pay attention and waved his hand to bring people up.
After a while, a middle-aged man about forty years old came in following the navy soldiers.
"The grass-roots people in Linshui have met the generals and the adults."
The middle-aged man greeted Niu Laosan and Xiao Fugui cautiously.
"Have you seen Liu's carriage? Where did they go?" Xiao Fugui asked hurriedly.
"My lord, the common people have seen the carriage of the Liu family, and they have also met Miss Liu Yuhua of the Liu family." The middle-aged man answered cautiously.
"Oh? Where is she?" Xiao Fugui asked anxiously.
"How do you know Miss Liu's family?" Niu Laosan frowned.
"Back to the general. I have worked as a gardener in the Liu family for several years, so I have met Miss Liu's family." Lin Shui answered hurriedly.
Then he said to Xiao Fugui:
"Seven days ago, it was the day of the heavy rain. That morning, I saw the Liu family's carriage at Wuli Bridge in the south of the city. At that time, Miss Liu opened the curtain of the carriage."
"Heavy rain?" Niu Laosan asked.
"Yes, yes, it rained heavily at noon that day! It rained so hard! I heard that the Wuli Bridge was washed away in the afternoon!" Lin Shui explained hurriedly.
Niu Laosan's eyes looked as if Lin Shui had done something bad.
"Strange, why did Liu's carriage go south of the city?" Xiao Fugui muttered.
The Liu family did not have a manor outside the city, and the mansion inside the city was also destroyed.
In the first few days, Chen Lin arranged for him to have a place in a small courtyard.
I heard from Chen Lin that there was only one young lady and two servants left in the Liu family.
Xiao Fugui went to the small courtyard to look for it on the day he got off the ship, but the building was already empty.
I heard from the neighbors that they haven't seen anyone in their house for several days.
"Did you see anything else?" Niu Laosan looked at Lin Shui and asked.
Lin Shui scratched his head, thought about it carefully and said, "There is only one Liu Mansion carriage, there is no one else."
"But there should be two people in the carriage. I saw Miss Liu opened the curtain, and a maid immediately put the curtain back again."
Niu Laosan frowned, and Xiao Fugui curled his lips.
According to Daqian's rules, servants from wealthy families, except for personal maids, are not allowed to enter the carriage.
That maid was just an ordinary servant, why did she sit in the carriage?
But these are troubled times, and everything cannot be inferred based on common sense.
"Master Niu, look at this..." Xiao Fugui saw that Lin Shui couldn't say anything more, so he looked at Niu Laosan.
"Don't worry. Since the prince has told me, I will definitely try my best to find him." Niu Laosan nodded.
…
In the afternoon of that day, Niu Laosan and a dozen sailors, led by Lin Shui, took a small boat to Wuli Bridge.
This is a tributary of Fengshui River, and the water flow is very small.
Even if it is a flood season, we can only go by small boat.
The Wuli Bridge was washed away by the flood that day, and now it is just a single-plank bridge built with a few rough logs.
I found a place to go ashore on the shore.
Lin Shui talked about what happened that day.
Niu Laosan asked people to search around to see if they could find any clues.
"Sir, here is a sign."
Not long after, a navy soldier dug out a sign from the grass on the side of the road.
Niu Laosan picked it up and looked at it.
"It's Liu's brand." Lin Shui recognized the brand as soon as he saw it.
Sure enough, the word "Liu Mansion" was written on the sign.
"Is this sign the servant's or the master's?" Niu Laosan handed the sign to Lin Shui and asked.
Lin Shui looked at it carefully for a while and said:
"Lord Hui Niu, this brand should belong to...the master's family. The brands belonging to the Liu family are smaller than this."
Niu Laosan took the sign back and sighed: "It seems something happened to Miss Liu!"